6 git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
12 'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
16 Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
17 higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
19 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
20 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
21 update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
22 is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to
23 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
25 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
26 asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
27 have a common ancestor commit.
33 Fetch all remote refs.
37 Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
38 cloning process less verbose.
42 Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but
43 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
44 in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
45 locked against repacking.
48 Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
49 on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
52 If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
53 be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
54 the object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must
55 otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
57 --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
58 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
59 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
60 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
61 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
62 your privately installed git may not be found on the system
63 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set
64 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
65 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
66 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
67 the things up in .bash_profile).
69 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
70 Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
73 Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
76 Do not show the progress.
82 A remote host that houses the repository. When this
83 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
87 The repository to sync from.
90 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
91 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
92 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
96 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite